Amnesty International calls on Hungary to arrest Netanyahu amid planned visit
London: Amnesty International has urged Hungary to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his scheduled visit to the country on Wednesday. Netanyahu is set to meet Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has stated that Hungary will not enforce the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrant against him.
The ICC issued a warrant for Netanyahu in November over alleged war crimes in Gaza. As an EU member state, Hungary is legally obligated to uphold ICC warrants, but Orban has refused to comply.
Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s head of global research, advocacy, and policy, said Netanyahu is accused of serious war crimes, including using starvation as a weapon, targeting civilians, and committing crimes against humanity such as murder and persecution.
The rights group warned that Netanyahu’s visit to an ICC member state without arrest would encourage further Israeli violations against Palestinians. It described his trip as a deliberate effort to undermine the ICC and an insult to victims seeking justice.
Amnesty International criticized Hungary’s stance, stating that allowing Netanyahu’s visit signals a disregard for international law. Guevara-Rosas urged European and global leaders to take action, warning that inaction would mock the suffering of Palestinian victims.
The organization also called on the ICC Prosecutor to pursue legal action against all of Israel’s alleged crimes and emphasized that leaders accused of war crimes must not enjoy impunity.
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Gurugram Police arrest BJP Yuva Morcha member for spreading fake murder story on social media
New Delhi: Gurugram Police have arrested BJP Yuva Morcha member Hariom Mishra, for allegedly spreading a fabricated and communally sensitive story on social media about the murder of a college student in Gurugram.
Mishra who is also known as Shaurya Mishra had shared a collage of four photographs on his X handle earlier this month. He claimed that a 24-year-old college student, identified as Nikita Agarwal, had been murdered by her classmate Arif Khan in Gurugram. In the post, he alleged that the woman was blackmailed, forced into prostitution, gangraped, and eventually killed. He also claimed that Arif dumped her body in a forest. The claims were presented as being based on police sources.
The post went viral and garnering over 1.5 lakh views, and was amplified by several right-wing social media handles across X, Facebook and Instagram. A verification of the claims revealed that no such incident had taken place in Gurugram. A search of credible news reports showed no record of any such murder. The police said this news would have inevitably attracted media attention if it were true.
On December 11, Gurugram Police publicly refuted the claims through their official X handle. They stated that the information which was being circulated was completely false. The police warned that legal action would be taken against those spreading misinformation. Despite the warning, Mishra neither deleted the post nor issued any clarification.
Police in Gurugram confirmed Mishra's arrest on December 16. The police said a FIR was filed after he continued to spread false information about the alleged murder of a Hindu woman by Muslim man. Police said Mishra, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambi district, is now being investigated.
Gurugram Police spokesperson Sandeep Singh told The Print that the accused had deliberately misrepresented facts and used objectionable content to spread hatred along religious lines. “Such posts can create serious disturbances in society, and the police take these matters very seriously,” he said.
A reverse image search conducted by fact-checkers at Alt News, revealed that the photographs used in the viral post were unrelated to the claims, while two of the images were traced to a Pinterest account belonging to influencer Maulik Chopra and another image was sourced from an Instagram post by influencer Shivam Thakur featuring a woman named Deepanshi Rawat. The fourth image was found on an unrelated Instagram page. The images depicted different individuals and had no connection to any crime.
Police said they are also investigating Mishra’s motive behind sharing the false and provocative content.
